More Last Chances

I'm pulling together more links - these will be around until Sunday, 1st of August, roughly.
Find them >> here <<

Grab now, listen later... last chance for some older goodies!

The blog will remain closed for another while, but I'm in the process of deleting many old files, as the change of rules on rapidshare is highly in favour of downloaders and against file-sharing folks like me.

So here's the deal... check >>here<< for some of the old goodies, and act fast, they'll be gone soon!

Do a search on the main page to find details about the recordings, please.

The files will soon be deleted (I guess around next weekend, or in about a week from this posting).

shhhhh!

this blog is not dead, it just smells funny...

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Amsterdam 2009

Here's the promised long show by this fine band - check yesterday's post for a short/preview set if you're unsure, but this is highly recommended!



Moppa Elliott & Mostly Other People Do The Killing
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Bimhuis
May 29, 2009

Jon Irabagon - tenor sax
Peter Evans - trumpet
Matthew Thomas "Moppa" Elliott - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

CD1/41:25
1. Drainlick (M.T. Elliott)
Round Bottom, Square Top (M.T. Elliott)
Dunkelbergers (M.T. Elliott)
All the Things You Are (J. Kern)
Hop Bottom Hop (M.T. Elliott) - 31:48
2. East Orwell (M.T. Elliott) - 9:37

CD2/65:03
1. Pen Argyl (M.T. Elliott)
Mars and Venus (M.T. Elliott)
Two Boots Jack (M.T. Elliott) - 28:00
2. Little Hope (M.T. Elliott)
My Delightful Muse (M.T. Elliott)
A Night in Tunisia (D. Gillespie)
Shamokin (M.T. Elliott)
Sinners (B. Alexander) - 35:51
3. Lost Voices (D. Toure) - 1:11

TT: 106:28 - complete!

Sound: A
Source: NL Radio6 > DVB-S (48 khz/256kbps) > TechniSat SkyStar HD2 > DVB Viewer > Audacity > flac

:: ubu edits ::
this came as FLAC @ 48kHz and had SBEs
TLH > WAV > BeLight/BeSweet > WAV @ 44.1kHz > TLH > FLAC (8,SBE fixed)

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Moers 2009

Here's a partial set im MP2, short and small, for those who're not sure... a full two-set concert will be posted later on. MOPDTK are a fabulous band led by bassist Moppa Elliott and featuring the great trumpet player Peter Evans, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, and Kevin Shea on drums. Their music is both modern and reaching back at the tradition at the same time, but tradition in their case means not only hard bop but also music by the likes of Ornette Coleman, Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, as can be seen from their funny album covers quoting classics.

Thanks to dime seeder fbauer for this set!



Mostly Other People Do The Killing
38th Moers Festival
Moers (Germany), Schlosspark, Grosses Zirkuszelt
May 30, 2009

Peter Evans - trumpet
Jon Irabagon - tenor sax
Moppa Elliot - bass
Kevin Shea - drums

1. (fm intro) 2:48
2. Per Argyl >
Round Bottom, Square Top >
Dunkelbergers >
Little Hope (27:22)
3. (fm outro) 0:04

TT: 30:14

fm recording in a good quality, recorded by HJWEIS
aired by german WDR3 'Konzert' live on 2009-05-30
aired by german WDR3 'Jazznacht' on 2009-06-07
http://www.wdr.de/unternehmen/presselounge/pressemitteilungen/2009/05/20090527_moers_festival.phtml
source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec)


http://www.moers-festival.de/index.php?id=619&L=1
Peter Evans, one of the musicians who stands out in the memory from last year’s festival,
returns to Moers with a streetwise quartet headed by the bassist Moppa Elliott.
The group’s album “This is our Moosic” is a tongue in cheek reference to the legendary
Ornette Coleman album from 1960 and is testimony both to their respect for the history of jazz,
but also to their intention to redefine “jazz” in the 21st century.

seeded by FBAUER on 2009-06-11

Ellington Legacy Orchestra - Aarau 1999

I was contacted about this by Peter Ugrin, the son of trumpet and violin player Petar Ugrin (1944-2001) playing here. Peter is himself a violin player. There are two beautiful tracks by Petar on his page, in particular, "Ozri Se V Gnevu" is stunning!

Ugrin was the only one to possibly take the role of Ray Nance, playing both trumpet and violin. The band here is a star-studded one, including a handful of Ellingtonians, most notably Aaron Bell, Duke's longtime bass player, who's on piano here. John Lamb and most of the brass players were with Ellington at one time or the other, too. In addition, there's another late trumpet great, Benny Bailey, and the late great John La Porta who can be heard playing a beautiful clarinet solo. Charli Persip is a fine big band drummer - one of his first gigs was with Dizzy Gillespie's 1956/57 orchestra!

So let me dedicate this post to Petar Ugrin and to his family.
And please pay a visit to Peter Ugrin's page and hear the fine music there!



The Ellington Legacy Orchestra
Aarau (Switzerland)
April 17, 1999

"Celebrating Duke - A Tribute to the Ellington Orchestra"

Benny Bailey, Barry Lee Hall, Wayne Bargeron - trumpet
Petar Ugrin - trumpet, violin
Art Baron, Britt Woodman, Buster Cooper - trombone
Fritz Renold - alto sax, clarinet
Bobby Watson - alto sax
John La Porta - tenor sax, clarinet
Tommy Smith - tenor sax
Bernd Konrad - baritone sax
Aaron Bell - piano
John Lamb - bass
Charlie Persip - drums
Bill Berry - conductor

Such Sweet Thunder (Ellington-Strayhorn) [TT: 40:25]
01. Such Sweet Thunder (Cleo) (3:30) [Bailey]
02. Sonnet For Caesar (2:44) [La Porta]
03. Sonnet To Hank Cinq (1:50) [Woodman]
04. Lady Mac (3:57) [Renold, Bailey]
05. Sonnet In Search Of A Moor (2:15) [Lamb]
06. The Telecasters (2:52) [Konrad]
07. Up And Down, Up And Down (3:42)
(I Will Lead Them Up And Down) (Puck) [Bailey, Ugrin]
08. Sonnet For Sister Kate (3:01) [Baron]
09. The Star-Crossed Lovers (4:16)
(aka Pretty Girl) [Watson, Smith]
10. Madness In Great Ones (Hamlet) (4:03) [Bargeron]
11. Half The Fun (aka Lately) (4:19) [Watson, Bell]
12. Circle Of Fourths (3:46) [Smith]

Toot Suite (Duke Ellington) [TT: 25:05]
13. Announcement BB (0:25)
14. Red Garter (4:21) [Woodman]
15. Red Shoes (5:11) [La Porta, Ugrin]
16. Red Carpet (8:43) [Renold, Hall, Baron, Bargeron]
17. Ready Go (6:24) [Smith]

TT: 65:30

Sound: A
Recorded by Swiss Radio
Source: DRS2 Broadcast/1999
Lineage: FM > Tape > Minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > CDR > EAC (secure) > FLAC (8)(asb)
Additional: EAC (secure) > Cool Edit Pro (centred all tracks, separated #13 from #14) > FLAC (8,asb,verify)
Shared on dimeadozen by ubu in January 2009

This project was initiated by Fritz Renold

ubu cinéphil

Updating my old post here.

This is by far not a complete list. I started going to the movies earlier, and I didn't take any notes about new films I saw for a long time. Anyway, I think this list may represent about two thirds of what I saw, and from 2004 on, it should be pretty complete.



::: 1996 :::

La vie et rien d'autre (Bernard Tavernier)
prob. O Thiasos (Theo Angelopoulos)



::: 1997 :::

prob. Nosferatu (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
prob. Faust (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
prob. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
prob. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
prob. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
prob. M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (Fritz Lang)
Un chien andalou (Luis Bunuel)
L'age d'or (Luis Bunuel)
prob. They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
prob. Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Sergej Eisenstein)
prob. Der Tod in Venedig (Lucchino Visconti)



::: 1998 :::

prob. La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
Streik (Sergej Eisenstein)
Panzerkreuzer Potemkin (Sergej Eisenstein)
Oktober (Sergej Eisenstein)
prob. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
prob. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
prob. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
prob. Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
prob. Asche und Diamant (Andrzej Waida)
La famiglia (Ettore Scola)
C'eravamo tanto amati (Ettore Scola)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Zelig (Woody Allen)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah)
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
Kleine Margeriten (Very Chytilova)



::: 1999 :::

prob. Stalker (Andrej Tarkowski)
prob. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
prob. The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
prob. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Die Liebe einer Blondine (Milos Forman)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Malina (Werner Schroeter)
Accatone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Il vangelo secondo Matteo (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Uccellaci e uccellini (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Edipo Re (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)$
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
I raconti di Caterbury (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Il fiore delle mille e una notte (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Salo o le 120 giorante di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Tirez sur le pianiste (François Truffaut)



::: 2000 :::

plenty of Luis Bunuel (European films mostly)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Casino (Martin Scorsese)
most of Robert Bresson's films
Ekstase (Gustav Machaty)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Betolucci) ?
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
films of Laszo Moholy-Nagy
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Le jour se lève (Marcel Carné)
Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné)
Les enfants du paradis (Marcel Carné)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
A bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le mépris (Jean-Luc Godard)
Masculin - Féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard)
Sauve qui peut (la vie) (Jean-Luc Godard)
Prénom Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)



::: 2001 :::

Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol)
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
Les noces rouges (Claude Chabrol)
Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
Les phantomes du chapelier (Claude Chabrol)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
Le bal (Ettore Scola)
Cronaca familiare (Valerio Zurlini)
La prima notte di quiete (Valerio Zurlini)
Il deserto dei Tartari (Valerio Zurlini)
Das Glück (Alexander Medwjedkin)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (Errol Morris)
Les quatre cent coups (François Truffaut)
Antoine et Colette (François Truffaut)
La peau douce (François Truffaut)
La nuit américaine (François Truffaut)
La chambre verte (François Truffaut)
Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
Exodus (Otto Preminger)
Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks)
Harper (Jack Smight)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (John Huston)
The Mackintosh Man (John Huston)
The Verdict (Sindey Lumet)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Die Ballade von Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Iwans Kindheit (Andrej Tarkowski)
Andrej Rubljow (Andrej Tarkowski)
Serkalo (Andrej Tarkowski)
Stalker (Andrej Tarkowski)
Solaris (Andrej Tarkowski)
Nostalghia (Andrej Tarkowski)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
Ivan Grosny (Sergej Eisenstein)
Wenn die Kraniche ziehen (Michail Kalatosow)
La terra trema (Lucchino Visconti)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
The Lawless (Joseph Losey)
The Young One (Luis Bunuel)
M.A.S.H. (Robert Altman)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Novecento (Bernardo Bertolucci)



::: 2002 ::::

no notes taken, guessed with help of archive websites of the the two cinemas I mostly frequent (here and here)

January
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) ?
Il gattopardo (Luchino Visctonti) ?

February
Roman Holiday (William Wyler) ?
Roberto Succo (Cédric Kahn)
Cerný Petr (Milos Forman)
Lásky jedné plavovlásky [Die Liebe einer Blondine] (Milos Forman)
Horí, má panenko [Feuerwehrball] (Milos Forman)
Ragtime (Milos Forman)

March
The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
The Roaring Tenties (Raoul Walsh)
They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

April
The Third Man (Carol Reed) ?
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)

May
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) ?
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder) ?
Sabrina (Billy Wilder) ?
The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder) ?
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder) ?
Metropolis (Fritz Lang) ?
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang) ?
Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang) ?
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang) ?
Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi) ?
Zelig (Woody Allen) ?

June
Stavisky (Alain Resnais)
Providence (Alain Resnais) ?
Mon oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais) ?
La vie est un roman (Alain Resnais) ?
Smoking (Alain Resnais)
No Smoking (Alain Resnais)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker) ?
Uckermark (Volker Koepp)
Bitterfeld, 1992 (Mathias Knauer)

July
La ley del deseo (Pedro Almodovar)
Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
Manhattan (Woody Allen) ?
The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) ?
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) ?
The Misfits (John Huston)
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
Ieri, oggi, domani (Vittorio da Sica) ?

August
Tokyo monogatari (Yashuiro Ozu) ?
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
Sans soleil (Chris Marker) ?
Messer im Kopf (Reinhard Hauff)
Fish and Elephant (Li Yu)
The Box (Echo Y. Windy)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) ?
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)

September
Absolut Warhola (Stanislaw Mucha)

November
some films by Polanski (Rosemary's Baby for sure, and I guess: Knife in the Water, Cul-de-Sac, Repulsion)

December
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard) ?



::: 2003 ::::

no notes taken, guessed with help of archive websites of the the two cinemas I mostly frequent (here and here)

January
Unagi (Shohei Imamura)
Nippon konchuki [The Insect Woman] (Shohei Imamura)
Narayama bushiko [Die Ballade von Narayama] (Shohei Imamura)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
Sciuscia (Vittoria da Sica)
Ladri di biciclette (Vittoria da Sica)
Riso Amaro (Giuseppe de Santis)
Umberto D. (Vittoria da Sica)
Paisà (Roberto Rossellini)


February
Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni) ?
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper / Ernest B. Schoedsack) ?
Ekstase (Gustav Machaty)
The Accident (Joseph Losey)

March/April
The Servant (Joseph Losey)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)

May
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) ?

June
The Parallax View (Alan Pakula)
Todo Modo (Elio Petri)
La grande illusion (Jean Renoir) ?

July
Das Glück (Alexander Medwjedkin)

September
Key Largo (John Huston) ?
La strada (Federico Fellini)
I vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
Giulietta degli spiriti (Federico Fellini)
Fellini: Roma (Federico Fellini) ?
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini)

October
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) ?
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) ?

December
Nuit et brouillard (Alain Resnais) ?



::: 2004 :::

January
03 - Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
10 - La petite Lili (Claude Miller)
11 - Scarface (Howard Hawks)
17 - The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
23 - Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

February
07 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph Mankiewicz)
07 - Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich)
12 - Late George Apley (Joseph Mankiewicz)
13 - Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 - Secretary (Steven Shainberg)
16 - The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
18 - All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz)
19 - A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph Mankiewicz)
28 - Europa (Lars van Trier)

March
01 - House of Strangers (Joseph Mankiewicz)
02 - Element of Crime (Lars van Trier)
04 - The Barefoot Comtessa (Joseph Mankiewicz)
05 - Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
06 - Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph Mankiewicz)
09 - The Quiet American (Joseph Mankiewicz)
10 - The Honey Pot (Joseph Mankiewicz)
11 - Sleuth (Joseph Mankiewicz)
13 - Godfather I / Godfather II / Godfather III
25 - Le mani sulla città (Francesco Rosi)
27 - Temps du loup (Michael Haneke)

April
03 - Underground (Emir Kusturica)
10 - Elephant Man (David Lynch)
12 - Der Redner (?)
15 - Shoah (first half) (Claude Lanzman)
17 - Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi)
22 - Shoah (second half) (Claude Lanzman)
23 - Cadaveri eccellenti (Francesco Rosi)
24 - Návrat Idiota (Sasa Gedeon)
26 - Il caso Mattei (Francesco Rosi)
28 - Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Francesco Rosi)
29 - Otosanek (Jan Svankmajer)

May
01 - Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow)
05 - Werckmeister Harmoniak (Bela Tarr)
07 - Die Dreigroschenoper (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
17 - The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
23 - Five Obstructions (Lars van Trier)
23 - Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
25 - iXième (Stéphane Blok/Pierre-Yves Borgaud)
30 - L'histoire du Marie et Julien (Jacques Rivettte)

June
05 - Nathalie (Anne Fontaine)
09 - Stupeur et tremblement (Alain Corneau)
13 - Darling (John Schlesinger)
25 - Djävulens öga (Ingmar Bergman)
26 - Tokyo boshoku [Tokyo Twilight] (Yasujiro Ozu)
27 - Soshun [Early Spring] (Yasujiro Ozu)
29 - Peccate che sia una canaglia (Alessandro Blasetti)

no entries done for July and first half of August, probably most of Ozu's other great filmes, incl. Early Autumn, Late Autumn, Early Summer, Drifting Weeds and one or two others

August
15 - Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
19 - The Ghost Train (Géza von Bolváry)
21 - Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
26 - Wunder der Schöpfung (Hanns Walter Kornblum) / La reine des papillons (Ladislaus Starewitch)
28 - Eva (Joseph Losey)
29 - Viva Maria (Louis Malle)
31 - Les liaisons dangereux (Roger Vadim)

September
02 - Count Basie film shorts
04 - Fantome de la Liberte (Luis Buñuel)
08 - Journal d'une femme de chambre (Luis Buñuel)

probably nothing for two months... (it does happen!)

November
14 - Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming/David O. Selznick)

December
27 - Le serviteur de Kali [Nizhalkkuthu] (Adoor Gopalakrishnan)

no other entries for late 2004... probably just too lazy to fill in my diary back then.



::: 2005 :::

January
09 - Les noces rouges (Claude Chabrol)
12 - Themroc (Claude Faraldo)
21 - Max et les ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)

February
01 - In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
13 - La belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
26 - 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)

March
07 - The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
13 - Accordion Tribe (Stefan Schwietert)
16 - 92 Minutes of Mr. Baum (Assi Dayan)
19 - Two Weeks in another Town (Vincente Minelli)

April
02 - Rebellion [Jî-uchi Hairyô tsuma shimatsu] (Masaki Kobayashi)
10 - Senso (Visconti)
16 - Sedmikrasky (Very Chytilová)

May
07 - Viskningar och rop [Cries and Whispers] (Ingmar Bergman)
12 - Sommaren med Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
25 - Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grossstadt (Walter Ruttmann)
27 - Entr'acte / Ballet Mécanique etc.
27 - Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)

June
16 - Rat der Götter (Kurt Maetzig)

no entries for all summer and fall

November
09 - History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
16 - Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
21 - La belle dame sans merci (Germaine Dulac)

December
02 - Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
04 - Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
07 - The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)



::: 2006 :::

January
14 - Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
18 - Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
19 - Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
21 - Radio Days (Woody Allen)
21 - Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
21 - Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)

February
06 - Nora Inu [Stray Dog] (Akira Kurosawa)
14 - Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
15 - The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
18 - The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
25 - Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan)

March
08 - Przypadek [Blind Chance] (Krzystof Kieslowski)
10 - four shorts/documentaries by Kieslowski
13 - Decalogue I & II (Krzystof Kieslowski)
14 - Decalogue III & IV (Krzystof Kieslowski)
17 - Decalogue V & VI (Krzystof Kieslowski)
20 - Decalogue VII & VIII (Krzystof Kieslowski)
21 - La double vie de Veronique (Krzystof Kieslowski)
25 - Decalogue IX & X (Krzystof Kieslowski)

April
05 - L'appartment (Gilles Mimouni)
26 - Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
27 - La société du spectacle (Guy Debord)
29 - Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini)

May
02 - Institute Benjamenta (Stephen & Timothy Quay)

July
18 - Dites-lui que je l'aime (Claude Miller)
19 - Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
20 - Le dernier métro (François Truffaut)

September
29 - Under the Volcano (John Huston)

October
10 - La dignidad de los nadies (Fernando Solanas)
12 - La nube (Fernando Solanas)
14 - Nachbarn (?)
15 - Ung flukt (Edith Carlmar)
25 - El sur (Fernando Solanas)
28 - Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
?? - Memoria del saqueo (Fernando Solanas)

November
03 - Black Dahlia (Brian de Palma)

no more entries in 2006



::: 2007 :::

January
05 - Pasolini short films
16 - The Following (Christopher Nolan)
21 - Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
27 - Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

March
12 - Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
15 - L'année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
17 - Futarizuma (Mikio Naruse)
21 - Ukigumo (Floating Clouds)
22 - A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
27 - Les témoins (Eric Rohmer)

April
06 - Zazie dans le metro (Louis Malle)
09 - Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 - I pugni in tasca (Marco Bellocchio)
28 - Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

May
03 - Do You Remember Dolly Bell (Emir Kusturica)
05 - Bin-Jip (Kim Ki-duk)
06 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
10 - Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
13 - Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
16 - Junta/Garage Olimpo (Marco Bechis)
18 - Prima della rivoluzione (Bernardo Bertolucci)
19 - Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
20 - Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci)
20 - Prima della rivoluzione (Bernardo Bertolucci)
31 - Tsisperi mtebi anu daujerebeli ambavi [Blue Mountains] (Eldar Shengelaya)

June
12 - The Last Show (Robert Altman)
26 - Black Book (Michael Verhoeven)

July
03 - Laura (Otto Preminger)
13 - Infernal Affairs (Wai Keung Lau/Siu Fai Mak)
22 - La société du spectacle (Guy Debord)
26 - Le locataire (Roman Polanski)

August
06 - Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
10 - Avanti (Billy Wilder)
14 - Batalla en el cielo (Carlos Reygadas)
19 - Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
23 - Indigènes (Rachid Bouchareb)
27 - Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller)

September
01 - Dark Passage (Delmer Dawes)
02 - Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
03 - Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
06 - Lola (Jacques Démy)
08 - Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
19 - The Bubble (Eytan Fox)
27 - Anna (Pierre Koralnick)

October
10 - Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 - L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
17 - L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
20 - L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
21 - Chung Kuo - Cina (Michelangelo Antonioni)
25 - The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
27 - Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni)

November
04 - Eros (Michelangelo Antonioni/Steven Soderbergh/Wong Kar-Wai)
07 - Professione: reporter (Michelangelo Antonioni)
10 - Identificazione di una donna (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15 - Al di là delle nuvole (Michelangelo Antonioni)
18 - Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
22 - Atonement (Joe Wright)
27 - Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)

December
03 - Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
21 - Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch) ?
22 - Bluebeard's Eight Wife (Ernst Lubitsch) ?
28 - Lo meglio gioventù (Marco Tullio Giordana)
31 - Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)



::: 2008 :::

January
10 - Die Walze & die Geige (Andrej Tarkowskij) / Une journée d'Andrej Arsenevitch (Chris Marker)
12 - Serkalo (Andrej Tarkowskij)
14 - Moscow Elegy (Alexander Sokurow)
16 - La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
26 - Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi)
29 - The Italian Job (Peter Collinson)

February
01 - Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
07 - The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)
14 - Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton)
22 - Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)

March
04 - I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
07 - Le notti bianche (Luchino Visconti)
08 - Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah)
11 - Taking Sides (Istvan Szabo)
15 - Oberst Redl (Istvan Szabo)
20 - The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
21 - Breath (Kim Ki-duk)

April
04 - Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah)
05 - Le joli mai (Chris Marker)
08 - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
09 - Loin du Vietnam (Chris Marker a.o., incl. Jean-Luc Godard / Alain Resnais)
10 - Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
18 - Monte Walsh (William A. Fraker)
24 - Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
29 - Mio fratello e figlio unico (Daniele Lucchetti)
30 - Le fond de l'air est rouge (Chris Marker)

May
15 - Le magnifique (Philippe de Broca)
28 - The House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
29 - Actrices (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi)

June
01 - Navigators (Ken Loach)
07 - Anatomy of Murder (Otto Preminger)

July
03 - Julia (Erick Zonca)
29 - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)

August
07 - J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (Samuel Benchetrit)
21 - Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
22 - The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
27 - Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)
28 - An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
30 - El dependiente (Leonardo Favio)
31 - Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)

September
01 - Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho)
04 - North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
12 - The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, US remake)
17 - Tres veces Ana (David José Kohon)
26 - Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)

October
17 - Twilight (Robert Benton)
18 - Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
20 - Te'alat Blaumilch [Blaumilchkanal] (Ephraim Kishon)
23 - Baader Meinhof Komplex (Uli Edel)
28 - Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)

November
03 - The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
07 - Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
13 - Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

December
02 - Iklimler (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
09 - Izganie [The Banishment] (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
12 - Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)
13 - Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
18 - Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
20 - Buddenbrocks (Heinrich Breloer)
27 - Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin)



::: 2009 :::

January
23 - The Deadly Affair (Sidney Lumet)
25 - King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (Sidney Lumet)
27 - Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
29 - Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Glauber Rocha)

February
10 - Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
15 - Lemon Tree (Eran Riklis)
19 - Entre les murs (aka La classe) (Laurent Cantet)

March
12 - The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
19 - La forteresse (Fernand Melgar)
26 - Der Knochenmann (Wolfgang Murnberger)

April
03 - La chienne (Jean Renoir)
05 - Une partie de campagne / La vie est à nous (Jean Renoir)
06 - Le crime de M. Lange (Jean Renoir)
07 - Boudu sauvé de l'eau (Jean Renoir)
10 - Toni (Jean Renoir)
15 - Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir)
17 - Les bas-fonds (Jean Renoir)
23 - La bête humaine (Jean Renoir)
27 - Comizi d'amore (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
29 - La règle du jeu (Jean Renoir)

May
01 - Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
02 - La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
04 - The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
06 - French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
07 - The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
08 - The River (Jean Renoir)
09 - Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Jean Renoir)
13 - No More Smoke Signals (Fanny Bräuning)
15 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
15 - La salamandre (Alain Tanner)
18 - L'invitation (Claude Goretta)
21 - Messidor (Alain Tanner)
22 - Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (Alain Tanner)
25 - Le fou (Claude Goretta)
27 - Le retour d'Afrique (Alain Tanner)
30 - La lune avec les dents (Michel Soutter)

June
04 - Ricky (François Ozon)
06 - Angels & Demons (aka Illuminati) (Ron Howard)
09 - The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
19 - No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese)

July
13 - Kærlighed på film [Just Another Love Story] (Ole Bornedal)
22 - Alle andern (Maren Ade)

August
10 - Otto e mezzo (Federico Fellini)
20 - Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
24 - Viva Zapata (Elia Kazan)
25 - Los abrazos rotos (Pedro Almodovar)
27 - Bardelys the Magnificient (King Vidor)
29 - On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
31 - Klostret i Sendomir (Victor Sjöström)

September
02 - Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)
04 - East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
05 - The Rounders (Charles Chaplin) / Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman)
06 - Les tricheurs (Marcel Carné)
09 - The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan)
16 - Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
22 - Permanent Vacation (Jim Jarmusch)
23 - Antichrist (Lars van Trier)

October
07 - Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

November
05 - Das weisse Band (Michael Haneke)
18 - Szegénylegények [Die Hoffnungslosen] (Mikos Jancso)
25 - Csillagosok, katonák [Die Roten und die Weissen] (Miklos Jancso)
26 - Fényes szelek [Die Konfrontation] (Miklos Jancso)
29 - From Russia with Love (Terence Young)

December
02 - Csend és kiáltás [Stille und Schrei] (Miklos Jancso)
05 - Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr, Pesten [Die Laternen des Herrn in Budapest] (Miklos Jancso)
06 - Sommernattens leende (Ingmar Bergman)
09 - Még kér a nép [Roter Psalm] (Miklos Jancso)
13 - Andrey Rublyow (Andrej Tarkowskij)



::: 2010 :::

January
06 - Ai to kibo no machi [Stadt voll Liebe und Hoffnung] (Nagisa Oshima)
09 - Seishun zankoku monogatari [Nackte Jugend] (Nagisa Oshima)
11 - Nihon no yoru to kiri [Nacht und Nebel über Japan] (Nagisa Oshima)
15 - Shinjuku dorobo nikki [Diary of a Shinjuku Thief] (Nagisa Oshima)
16 - Nihon shunka-kô [A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs / Sing a Song of Sex] (Nagisa Oshima)
21 - Koshikei [Death by Hanging] (Nagisa Oshima)
22 - Sult [Hunger] (Henning Carlsen)
23 - Shonen [Boy] (Nagisa Oshima)
24 - Gishiki [The Ceremony] (Nagisa Oshima)
25 - Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu [Japanese Summer: Double Suicide] (Nagisa Oshima)
28 - Un prophère (Jacques Audiard)
31 - The Man from London (Bela Tarr)

February
03 - Kaette kita yopparai [Three Resurrected Drunkards /Sinner in Paradise] (Nagisa Oshima)
05 - Ai no borei [Empire of Passion] (Nagisa Oshima)
12 - Furyo / Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
19 - Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
23 - The Trial (Orson Welles)

March
11 - Silentium (Wolfgang Murnberger)
19 - After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

April
02 - Quai des orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
08 - Le corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
12 - Reisender Krieger (Christian Schocher)
13 - L'assassin habite au... 21 (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
15 - Le salaire de la peur (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
16 - Une femme est une femme (Jean-Luc Godard)
22 - Io sono l'amore (Luca Guadagnino)
26 - Reisender Krieger (Christian Schocher)

Ceu - Cologne 2009

In my humble opinion, CéU is one of the hottest new acts that has appeared in the past few years. I got both her CDs and was lucky enough to see her on her CD release tour last fall. Here's a radio broadcast of another concert from that tour. Check her out!

I couldn't positively i-d #10 - it's on neither of the CDs.



CéU
Köln (Germany), Stadtgarten
October 25, 2009

Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças - vocals
Guilherme Ribeiro - keyboards, guitar, accordion
Lucas Martins - electric bass, vocals
Bruno Buarque - drums
DJ Marco - turntables

1. fm intro (0:38)
2. Sobre O Amor E Seu Trabalho Silencioso (1:21)
3. Espaçonave (3:37)
4. Comadi (3:49)
5. Malemolência (4:10)
6. Lenda (4:29)
7. Grain de Beauté (4:25)
8. Nascente (4:49)
9. Cangote (5:41)
10. Visco da Jaga (4:59)
11. Bubuia (3:26)
12. Ponteiro (4:57)
13. 10 Contados (3:34)
14. Papa (1:23)
15. Cordão da Insônia (4:50)
16. Ave Cruz (4:41)
17. Rainha (6:35) [fm voiceover at beginning]

TT: 67:33

Sound: A
Lineage: FM (analog cable) - SpinDoctor - Audacity 1.3.2 - xACT

Funkhaus Europa
World Live
2009-12-13

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Gil Evans Orchestra - Stuttgart 1974

Here's an MP2 set I just came across... thought I could just as well share it...
Thanks a lot to the original seeder on dime!



Gil Evans Orchestra
Stuttgart (Germany), Mozartsaal, Liederhalle
July 22, 1974
(MP2)

Gil Evans - piano, conductor
Lew Soloff, Marvin Hannibal Peterson - trumpet
Peter Gordon, Pete Levin - french horn
Tom Malone - trombone, tuba, synthesizer
Howard Johnson - tuba
David Sanborn - alto sax, flute
John Stubblefield - tenor sax, flute
Trevor Koehler - baritone & soprano sax, flute
John Abercrombie, Paul Metzke - guitar
Don Pate - bass
Bruce Ditmas (?) - drums
Susan Evans, Warren Smith - percussion, vibes

1. Short Visit (7:00)
2. Kirisame (18:59)
3. Up from the Skies (9:53)
4. Cheryl (15:58) [inc, fades]
5. Amadama (9:40)

TT: 61:30

Sound: A-
Source: SWR 2 "Jazz Session" / 2006-10-12
Lineage: DVB-S@192, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast format)

Lenny Popkin - Paris 2002

Now here's a very special contribution, shared kindly by bhowani. It took me a while to edit the raw files I got, I did my best to remove clicks and make the listening as seemless as possible (since the moderators of the fine French jazz live show "Jazz Club" talk in between most tunes, there were a lot, and there remain some rough cuts).

Anyway, let's skip the technicalities and delve into the music. Popkin is one of the survivors of the Lennie Tristano school - and arguably one of the finest performing tenor players of these days where individualism is so trendy but can hardly be found. Popkin was born in 1941 and together with his wife Carol Tristano (son of Lennie's), pianist Connie Crothers (known also for collaborations with Max Roach) and a few others carries the flame and keeps the Tristano brand of jazz alive.

Also, Lenny Popkin doesn't take place in the web... or hardly does.

A video from this very concert can be viewed here. Another video with Gilles Naturel on bass can be found here.

And finally, there's a french interview here (including a discography at the end).



Lenny Popkin
Paris (France), Sunset
April 2, 2002

Lenny Popkin - tenor sax
Jean-Philippe Viret - bass
Carol Tristano - drums

CD1/63:01 - Set 1 & Set 2
1. unknown (4:14)
2. Just Friends (3:25)
3. Body and Soul (4:20)
4. All the Things You Are (2:46)
5. You Don't Know What Love Is (7:46)
6. unknown (5:03)
7. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (4:54)
8. How Deep Is the Ocean (10:43)
9. It Could Happen to You (8:22)
10. Out of Nowhere (5:44)
11. I'll Remember April (5:37)

CD2/39:26 - Set 3 & Interviews
1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (2:03)
2. unknown (4:32)
3. (Back Home Again in) Indiana (5:18)
4. Embraceable You (5:05)
5. On Green Dolphin Street (7:09)
6. There Will Never Be Another You (4:07)
7. Stella by Starlight (5:26)
8. Lenny Popkin Interview (2:05)
9. Jean-Philippe Viert Interview (3:37)

TT: 102:27

Sound: A/A- (some glitches, noise, rough cut-ins/outs etc)
Source: France Musique "Jazz Club" / 2002
Lineage: FM > ? > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

:: ubu edits ::

on all tracks: left channel 4.5dB boost, then 6dB boost on both channels
removed many clicks in CD1#5-7, CD2#5-6
deleted some dropouts where I found them
smoothened marks, added fades & silence between tracks where necessary


:: note from bhowani ::

bon voilà ce concert du trio de popkin à paris retransmis par la radio en FM.
comme je le disais dans mon post, j'avais demandé à un de mes amis de l'enregistrer..je ne suis donc pas capable de préciser les données techniques...

il y a les imperfections classiques des broadcasts radio et quelques morceaux sont TRES douloureusement coupés..
mais pour les amoureux de Popkin, le Pierrot Lunaire encore plus lunaire que Marsh, quasi désincarné, cet enregistrement est unique...

J'étais au premier rang...hypnotized...Grand souvenir musical, goose flesh while writing these lines...
N'hésitez pas à me demander plus de détails...j'ai laissé les 2 interviews en français.... .

Le tout est l'intégrale du concert retransmis sur France Musique en 2002...il y a eu 3 sets au total
les 2 premiers sont sur le CD 1
et le 3ème avec les 2 interviews sur le CD 2

Barney & Irene

Two short extracts from rare albums that I've never seen - the India one is out there in the blogosphere, and if you ask politely, I may even have some live material... "Zodiac" seems to be among the very rarest of Barney Wilen albums though.

Barney Wilen - vinyl tracks

from "Jazz Meets India" (2:44)
Jazz Meets India : Barney Wilen (ts) Manfred Schoof (tp, cor) Irene Schweitzer (p) Uli Trepte (b) Mani Neumaier (d) Diwan Montihar (sitar,vo) Keshav Sathe (tabla) Kusum Thakur (tamboura)
Villingen, Germany, December 23, 1967, Saba/MPS SB-1514ST
1. unknown


from "Zodiac"
Barney Wilen (ts) Raymond Court (t) Carl Heinz Berger (p-1, vib-2) Jean Francois Jenny Clark (b) Jacques Thollot (d)
2. Cancer (B. Wilen) (2) (JT out) > Gemeaux (B. Wilen) (2)

NOTE:
Barney Wilen - Zodiac - Vogue, Paris, January 19 & 20, 1966,
Sehr seltene und gesuchte Platte des Saxophonisten Barney Wilen, der 1959 durch Miles Davis Musik zum Film "Fahrstuhl zum Schaffot" / "L´ascenseur du l´echafaud" / "Lift to the Scaffold" berühmt wurde. Diese 1966 eingespielten Aufnahmen mit Carl Heinz Berger, J.-F. Jenny Clark und Jacques Thollot erschienen nur auf dem französischen Label Vogue CLVLX 9130.


Source #1: France Musique "Le jazz probablement" / 2006-05-22

Source #2: France Musiques "Jazz à contre-courant" / 2006-06-04
[Special show titled "Hommage au saxofoniste Barney Wilen"]
Lineage: FM > minidisc > analogue to HD > GoldWave > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Wayne Shorter - Village Vanguard 1965 (with Herbie Hancock)

There was a request for this set in a recent Sonny Rollins set I put up, where Hancock was among the sidemen. This, alas, is no pleasure to listen to, sound is really bad. But of course it's still worth trying... probably a good way is to play one or two songs, and then once your ears got used to the sound, start anew again.

So what do we get here? A pure classic show by Wayne Shorter, recorded at the Village Vanguard with Herbie Hancock, Gary Peacock and Tony Williams - if this was in prime sound, it might as well be a favorite, but as it is, it's more a curiosity of historical value.
This seems to come from the midst of a period of inactivity of Miles' band - Peacock was one of the bass players who subbed occasionally when Carter was unavailable (others were Richard Davis and Al Stinson). Coincidentally, Miles' return to the scene took place at the Village Vanguard and with Peacock as well, in late 1965 (see here).



Wayne Shorter Quartet
New York City (USA), Village Vanguard
August 1, 1965

Wayne Shorter - tenor sax
Herbie Hancock - piano
Gary Peacock - bass
Tony Williams - drums

1. The Eye of the Hurricane (10:15)
2. Just in Time (9:35)
3. Oriental Folk Song (12:02)
4. Virgo (7:09)
5. Fran-Dance (6:06)

TT: 45:09

Sound: B
Lineage: aud? > tape > cd-r > EAC(secure mode) > wav > flac(7)(asb)
Edited by ubu, ripped today from CDR (w/EAC, secure, log) > TLH > FLAC (8)

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (5/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

For the fifth and final volume, we mostly stay with Johnny Hodges, starting out with some cuts from a session featuring Ray Nance, Jimmy Hamilton, Lawrence Brown, Billy Strayhorn, and the mid-50s ducal rhythm section of Jimmy Woode and Sam Woodyard. Then we go on with Hodges, Hamilton and the rhythm section but get Clark Terry, Quentin "Butter" Jackson and Ray Nance added for another pair of tunes. To end this off, there are Carney's features from a 1961 concert by a Johnny Hodges touring unit, again with Lawrence Brown and Ray Nance in the band.
In between, we get a short but sweet and intriguing rarity: an audio recording (how great would it be to have this on video!) by an Ellington all star formation including Hodges, Carney, Oscar Pettiford and... Max Roach! Yes indeed!

Happy listening - hope you'll enjoy the great music in this little series!

Harry Carney lives!

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (4/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

Volume four of the series goes into Johnny Hodges territory, and for the largest part, we're going to stay with Rabbit's band up to the end! The two partial dates included here are from when Hodges took time off the Ellington band to lead his own band, in the early fifties (he would be back by 1956). You hear one of the underrated Ellington trumpet greats, Harold "Shorty" Baker, on the first date, Clark Terry on the second, while Jimmy Hamilton and Lawrence Brown are on both. Call Cobbs (later with Albert Ayler) and a young Coltrane (not heard in solo) are on the first, as is early 50s Ellington drummer Louie Bellson, whom we heard on volume three of this compilation. On the second date, we get to hear the great Sonny Greer - one of the most important sidemen of Ellington's long career - as well as Ellington alter ego Billy Strayhorn on piano.

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (3/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

The third volume takes the story a step further, including just two sessions: the entire Capitol date by Louie Bellson, featuring an intriguing mix of swing and modern musicians including Clark Terry, Juan Tizol, John Graas, Willie Smith, Wardell Gray, Wendell Marshall, and Billy Strayhorn, and then the full glorious "Harry Carney with Strings" album done in 1954 for Norman Granz' Clef label.
Programmed out of sequence, but I thought it fits in here better, you'll get the two Ellington sides from Granz' "The Jazz Scene" album - both featuring Harry Carney, backed by an orchestra, and of course he plays magnificently!

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (2/5)

Harry Carney – Centennial Celebration
Boston, Massachusets, April 1, 1910 – New York, October 14, 1974

The second volume continues the great small group sessions from the 1940s, including Carney's own H.R.S. session. He composed "Chili Con Carney" for Sandy Williams' session for the same label, and he was featured on a magnificient "Why Was I Born" on the Wax session with Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Jones, Lawrence Brown and Billy Strayhorn.

Harry Carney Centennial Celebration (1/5)

Harry Carney, the great anchor of many a fine Ellington sax section, would have been 100 years old today, April 1, 2010.

Carney was born in Boston, MA, on April 1, 1910. As a teenager, he started playing with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1927 and participating in a first recording session on October 6 of that year. Carney started out playing alto sax and clarinet with Duke. The clarinet would stay in his bag for all those years, he did section work here and there and did his patented solo on "Rockin' in Rhythm" on the licorice stick as well. He later also added the bass clarinet to his roster.

Carney was one of the most important and longest standing members in Ellington's band - other than Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, and other important Ellingtonians, he never left the orchestra and played with Duke up to his death in New York, on October 8, 1974 (the Duke himself had died the same year, on May 24).

Nowadays, with a bunch of well-known modern baritone sax players, Carney is unjustly forgotten, yet he may well still be the greatest baritone sax player in jazz. He was firmly based on Coleman Hawkins' innovations on the tenor sax, playing with a robust, huge sound. Carney was also a terrific balladeer.

This is the first of a five-part compilation of Carney's music, the other four will be posted in the next few days. The aim is to present Carney mostly in sideman appearances of various small groups, including the few sessions he led on his own. Ellington is mostly absent here, but of course a lot of the music is very Ellingtonian in mood, and many of the sidemen were Ellingtonians, including Johnny Hodges (who will be featured heavily on later volumes), Billy Strayhorn, Louis Bellson, Lawrence Brown, Cootie Williams, Jimmy Hamilton, Otto Hardwick, or Rex Stewart, but you'll also hear Coleman Hawkins, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Jones, Joe Thomas, Shelly Manne, Sandy Williams, Wardell Gray, Willie Smith, John Graas, Don Byas, Johnny Guarnieri, Charlie Ventura, Lester Young, and many others.
And of course you'll hear "Harry Carney with Strings", and his two features from Norman Granz' "The Jazz Scene", as well as a short Ellington rarity: a recording with Max Roach on the drums!

Hope you will enjoy, and hope many will (re-)discover what a terrific musician Harry Carney was!

Walter Norris & Red Mitchell - Rotterdam 1976

One more short set, by the great Walter Norris with Red Mitchell. If you want to hear more by Norris, reach for Ornette's "Something Else" to hear some early playing, or check him out with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band, or best, get "Drifting" (Enja, rec. 1974), a stellar duo set with George Mraz.



Walter Norris & Red Mitchell
Rotterdam (The Netherlands), De Doelen
June 20, 1976

Walter Norris - piano
Red Mitchell - bass

1. Drifting (6:57)
2. Thumbs (6:10)
3. Falling in Love With Love (6:26)

TT: 19:34

Sound: A
Source/Lineage: FM(rebroadcast)>Pioneer PDR-W839 cd-rec.>Fairstairs-rip>flac

:: ubu edits ::
fixed marks (#1/#2 was late, #2/#3 was early)
added fade-out at end of #3
Additional lineage: FLAC > TLH > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,SBE fixed)

Sonny Rollins - NYC 1965

Short sets days today... next one is Sonny Rollins in his prime, with Herbie Hancock at the piano! Sound is less than great, but it's pretty listenable after all the work and after goody's speed fix! Thanks mate!

Two other Rollins shows were previously posted here and here.
I'll have another recent Rollins set up here as well soon.



Sonny Rollins
New York City (USA), Half Note
April 30, 1965

Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
Herbie Hancock - piano
Herman Wright - bass
Beaver Harris - drums

1. Radio Intro (0:41)
2. There Will Never Be Another You (15:15)
3. My One Only Love (6:19)
4. Three Little Words (4:33) [inc]

TT: 26:51

Sound: A-/B+
Source: ABC radio broadcast (Alan Grant's "Portraits in Jazz")

:: ubu edits ::

the left channel was at lower volume and very muffled
deleted it and used right channel only

Additional lineage: FLAC > TLH > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8)
SBE's checked >

:: goody's additional lineage ::

dBpoweramp (WAV) > Cool Edit Pro (Pitch Bender -79 cents) > TLH (FLAC Level 8, ffp)
79 cents sharp

George Coleman - Perugia 1983

Here's a fine short set by George Coleman with one of his finest piano accompanists, the late Ronnie Mathews, who is featured on his own "Jean Marie" at the end.

Thanks a lot to Trane (aka sparti) for trading this (and a huge load of other fine shows) to me!


Photo by Mark Sheldon

George Coleman Quartet
Umbria Jazz
Perugia (Italy), Teatro Pavone
July 14, 1983

George Coleman - tenor sax
Ronnie Mathews - piano
Walter Booker - bass
Hugh Walker - drums

1. When Lights Are Low (Benny Carter) 12:39
2. Blues Inside Out (George Coleman) 6:35 [fm voiceover at beginning]
3. Jean-Marie (Ronnie Mathews) 9:25 [RM trio, fm voiceover at beginning]

TT: 28:40

Sound: A/A-
Source: FM Radio

:: ubu edits ::
deleted fm talk before and after #1
deleted fm talk after #2
fixed mark 2/3 (was set too late)
deleted fm talk after #3
Additional Lineage: TLH > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > TLH > FLAC (8,asb)

Rosario Giuliani - Fribourg 2009

Here's the second contribution from Lewojazz - thanks again!

This recording features the great Italian alto saxophonist Rosario Giuliani. He's accompanied by fellow Italians Flavio Boltro on trumpet, the great Dado Moroni on piano (I once had a chance to hear him at a private party - great musician!), and the French rhythm section of Rémi Vignolo and Benjamin Henocq. A mighty fine band, playing modern mainstream, very "in the pocket" and with plenty of groove - check them out even if you're not familiar with any of the musicians!



Rosario Giuliani Quintet
Jazz Parade
Fribourg (Switzerlad)
July 8, 2009

Rosario Giuliani - saxophone
Flavio Boltro - trumpet
Dado Moroni - piano
Rémi Vignolo - bass
Benjamin Henocq - drums

01 - DJ -Yvan Ische 01:10
02 - Anything else 12:00
03 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:18
04 - This is the answer 13:16
05 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:12
06 - Bora bora 14:11
07 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:41
08 - A winter day 11:44
09 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:11
10 - Walkin' around 09:58
11 - Walkin' around + talk 03:41
12 - DJ -Yvan Ischer 00:32
13 - Interview - Yvan Ischer - Rosario Giuliani 05:23

TT: 73:17
TT (without DJ+ITW): 64:50

Broadcast: Espace 2 "JazzZ" / 2010-02-28 (link)
Source: dvb-s > Humax PVR8000 / DVR Studio > mp2 > mp3DirectCut 2.08 > mp2
MPEG 1.0 Layer-2; 48,000 Hz Stereo; 256 Kbps

Recorded and edited by Lewojazz

Cholet-Känzig-Papaux - Fribourg 2009

This was up for a minute on dime a couple of days ago but was banned for a silly reason - the final seconds of the tracks, where the applause or music is faded, was changed to WAV for editing, and then encoded back to MP2... this makes for most enjoyable listening, but it's a breach of dime rules... the seeder has kindly allowed me not only to share this fine set here, but also the set by Rosario Giuliani from Jazzparade 2009.

Thanks a lot to Lewojazz for sharing these two sets with us!

The trio Cholet-Känzig-Papaux (sometimes referred to as ChoKaPa) has been featured here before, in collaboration with the late great Charlie Mariano. I hope you'll enjoy them on their own as well!



Cholet-Känzig-Papaux
Jazz Parade
Fribourg (Switzerland)
July 15, 2009

Jean-Christophe Cholet - piano
Heiri Kanzig - bass
Marcel Papaux - drums

01 - Espace2 - DJ 00:26
02 - Beyond the Circle 06:40
03 - Espace2 - DJ 00:08
04 - Unknown 08:03
05 - Espace2 - DJ 00:08
06 - Half Moon In A Blue Sky 08:52
07 - Espace2 - DJ 00:07
08 - Indian's step 07:06
09 - Espace2 - DJ 00:11
10 - Unknown 06:48
11 - Espace2 - DJ 00:08
12 - Rek Rap 03:40
13 - Espace2 - DJ 00:17
14 - Somme Song 05:42
15 - Espace2 - DJ 00:10
16 - Like A Gospel 05:58
17 - Espace2 - DJ 00:28
18 - Monte Grona 05:36
19 - Espace2 - DJ 00:20

TT: 60:48
TT (without DJ): 58:25

Broadcast: Espace Deux "JazzZ" / 2010-03-01 (link)
Source: dvb-s > Humax 8000 / DVR Studio > mp2 > mp3DirectCut 2.08 > mp2 >
Applause-Fades with AudioEdit Deluxe 4.10 > mp2
MPEG 1.0 Layer-2; 48,000 Hz Stereo; 256 Kbps

Recorded and edited by Lewojazz

Bobby Hutcherson & Tete Montoliu - Köln 1991

More great piano playing, this time by Catalanian pianist Tete Montoliu, in duo with vibes player Bobby Hutcherson.
A friend of mine maintains a great discography of Tete's recordings, and there's Miquel Jurado's book "Tete. Casi Autobiografia" (Madrid, 2005 - in Catalan only, I'm afraid).
In the discography, you'll see that Tete and Hutcherson played Bracknell in 1983 and did a 1984 session for Fantasy, recording enough for two albums - none of it has surfaced, alas (and with Concord owning that huge catalogue, things are lost and down the drain anyway).
This 1991 radio recording - coming in exceptionally good quality - from Cologne then is probably the best document we'll get from their collaboration. A truly sparkling session!



Bobby Hutcherson & Tete Montoliu
Köln (Germany), Subway Jazz Club
November 6, 1991

Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone
Tete Montoliu - piano

1. Mr. P.C. (John Coltrane) > In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk) 7:19
2. Misterioso (Thelonious Monk) 8:22
3. Well, You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) 8:16
4. Theme For Ernie (Fred Lacey) 6:51
5. Just a Gigolo (Casucci-Caesar) > April in Paris (Vernon Duke) 7:29
6. Blues Five Spot (Thelonious Monk) 6:44
7. Monk's Mood (Thelonious Monk) 2:16
8. Rhythm-A-Ning (Thelonious Monk) 6:34
9. All of You (Cole Porter) 8:31

TT: 62:26

Sound: A
Source: FM broadcast or pre-FM reel

Notes:
This is a complete upgrade over the version I previously had put to CD-R from an FM >DAT source. The sound is perfect and there are no interruptions from the announcer, thus leading me to believe that this could be direct from the soundboard or pre-FM source.
This is true spontaneous improvisation by two giants highly attuned to each other. Essential

Randy Weston - Chicago 1984 (with Johnny Griffin, Richard Davis & Art Blakey)

Quite an all star band on this one... you get Randy Weston doing three solo pieces, then a great take of "Niger Mambo" in duo with Art Blakey at the traps, followed by a tenor/bass duo of Griff & the amazing Richard Davis ("Body and Soul" - what else?), and finally they all get together for some blowing on "Now's the Time" and "Wee".

Needless to say I was all over this when it was up on dime... long story, I lost it, got it back (in trade from jazzrita - thank you!) and did the usual editing. It's one of my favourites, that's for sure!



Randy Weston
Jazz Festival
Chicago, IL (USA)
September 2, 1984

Johnny Griffin - tenor sax
Randy Weston - piano
Richard Davis - bass
Art Blakey - drums

1. Announcement by Randy Weston (0:29)
2. Night in M'Bari (5:51) [RW solo]
3. The Healers (8:39) [RW solo]
4. Penny Packer Blues (6:08) [RW solo]
5. Announcement by Randy Weston / FM voiceover (0:48)
6. Niger Mambo (7:53) [RW/AB duo]
7. Announcement by Randy Weston & Johnny Griffin > tuning (1:50) [cuts in]
8. Body and Soul (11:40) [JG/RD duo]
9. Now's the Time (9:38) [quartet]
10. Wee (5:21) [quartet]

TT: 58:24

Sound: A-
Source: radio broadcast

:: ubu edits & note ::

In the info I got the setlist was wrong (The Healers, Penny Packer Blues, Ann, Night in M'BariWeston announces #1 as being Night in M'Bari > The Healers > Penny Packer Blues!

Retracked whole show
Deleted silence & added fade-in at beginning of #1
Split up #2-7 (was #2)
Added a fade-out before the dropout at the end of #6
Merged tuning with #7 (was #3)
Deleted a bit of duplication before and after a dropout at end of #8
Split up #9-10 (was #5)

Danilo Perez - Glasgow 1997

Pianist Danilo Perez, born 1966 in Panama, was a small sensation in 1996 with his "PanaMonk" album, interpreting Monk tunes to Latin rhythms. Perez has been a member of Wayne Shorter's terrific quartet since 2000 and continues to work with the rejuvenated master saxophonist.

Here's an earlier set by his trio. I got this one from dime many years ago and had it on my harddisk awaiting to be edited for a long time... this set features him with Avishai Cohen on bass and the great Jeff Ballard on drums.



Danilo Perez Trio
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Glasgow (UK)
July 1997

Danilo Perez - piano
Avishai Cohen - bass
Jeff Ballard - drums

1. Blues for the Saint (8:16)
2. Bright Mississippi (Thelonious Monk) 8:18
3. 'Round Midnight (Monk-Hanighen-Williams) 10:51
4. Everything Happens to Me (10:50)
5. Alfonsina y el mar (4:46)
6. Panamonk (Danilo Perez) 12:08

TT: 55:12

Sound: A-
Source: BBC Radio 3 broadcast
No lineage info

:: ubu edits ::
fixed all marks
ran a de-click filter
added fades at beginning and end
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Kenny Werner - Monterey 1998

Pianist Kenny Werner was born in 1951 and has been on the scene for over three decades now. In the 80s, he had a longer stint with Mel Lewis' Orchestra and he has played in the groups of Joe Lovano, Tom Harrell, Eddie Gomez and others.
Werner also composed big band charts for orchestras such as the UMO Jazz Orchestra, the WDR Big Band and the Danish Radio Big Band.
He has been leading various piano trios ever since the late 70s, featuring musicians such as Tom Rainey, Johannes Weidenmüller or Ari Hoenig. On this 1998 set, he is accompanied by Dave Carpenter on bass and the great Peter Erskine on drums



Kenny Werner Trio
Monterey Jazz Festival 1998
Monterey Coffee House Gallery, Nonterey, CA (USA)
September 28, 1998

Kenny Werner - piano
Dave Carpenter - bass
Peter Erskine - drums

1. In Your Own Sweet Way / On Green Dolphin Street / Naima / Poincinia (10:45)
2. Announcement KW (0:29)
3. Melodies of 1997 (12:39)
4. Falling Grace (Steve Swallow) 10:12
5. Announcement KW (0:53)
6. A-Monk-St (Kenny Werner) 9:37
7. Announcement KW (0:27)
8. Work Song (Nat Adderley) 7:10
9. Announcement KW (0:49)
10. Lorraine (7:35)
11. Announcement KW (0:33)
12. Ivronics (8:46)

TT: 69:57

Sound: A/A-
Source: KCSM San Mateo FM 91.1 ("Sunday Night Sweets", host: Bud Spangler)

This is two of Bud's shows on one disc, not sure if it's two complete sets though. Any help with the first title is appreciated.

:: ubu edits ::
fixed marks
added fades
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > CoolEditPro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Paul Bley - Amsterdam 2009

Here's a recent solo set by Paul Bley (check out the preceeding post for more).
This was up on dime a few months ago, perfectly presented, but @ 48 kHz. Nero seems to fix this automatically, but the software I use won't, so I changed the FLAC files to 44.1 kHz, in order to be able to burn them... hope you'll enjoy this one as well!

Paul Bley - Solo
Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Bimhuis
May 13, 2009

Paul Bley - piano

1. Startled (Paul Bley) 13:40
2. How Long Has This Been Going On (George Gerhswin) 9:13
3. Please (Paul Bley) 8:30
4. Told You So (Paul Bley) 11:20
5. Love Ya (Paul Bley) 5:41
6. Staccato (Paul Bley) 2:35
7. Right to Sing (Paul Bley) 6:54
8. Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins - dedicated to Jimmy Giuffre) 4:04
9. Coleman (Paul Bley) 3:06

TT: 65:02 - complete!

Sound: A
Source: NL Radio6 > DVB-S (48 khz/256kbps) > EDIROL-R09 > Audacity > flac

This came in FLAC @ 48 kHz
Additional lineage: FLAC > WAV > BeLight/BeSweet > WAV @ 44.1 kHz > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Paul Bley feat. John Surman - Paris 1994

Here's a short set by Paul Bley's group featuring John Surman. Thanks to jazzrita for trading it to me!

A pair or earlier uploads with Bley are here and here.



Paul Bley Group featuring John Surman
Festival Banlieues Bleues
Drancy (France)
March 27, 1994

John Surman - soprano sax, bass clarinet, wood-flute
Paul Bley - piano
Furio di Castri - bass
Tony Oxley - drums, percussion

1. Combination (5:42) [JS,fl/TO,d]
2. Sevemph(?) (di Castri) 6:57 [quartet]
3. Flame (Bley) 5:10 [PB,p]
4. unknown (6:33) [quartet]
5. Ostinato (6:12) [PB,p]

TT: 30:34

Sound: A-
Source: FM (trade from jazzrita)
Lineage: FM > ? > CDR > EAC (secure, log) > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

:: ubu edits ::
fixed marks
deleted fm talk
deleted duplication around mark of #3/#4

Phil Woods - poss. Avignon 1970

Here's one more, back to the regular FLAC format for this one...

A smoking hot set by Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine, performing the "Executive Suite" at a concert that might be from Avignon 1970. If you know more about this or can help pinning it down, please post a comment!

This needed quite some work to be done, but it's well worth it! Woods was one of the best around this time, and one who kept the jazz flame burning... and still does!



Phil Woods & European Rhythm Machine
Avignon (France), Cloître des Céléstins
July 24, 1970

Phil Woods - alto sax
Gordon Beck - piano
Henri Texier - bass
Daniel Humair - drums

1. warm-up (0:12)
2. Executive Suite - Part 1 (Gordon Beck) 17:35 [spliced @ 14:39] >
3. And When We Are Young (?) (5:20) [b-feature] >
4. Executive Suite - Part 2 (Gordon Beck) 21:35
5. André Francis Outro (0:16) [inc]

TT: 45:00

Sound: A-/B+
Source: radio broadcast (ORTF, André Francis)

:: ubu edits ::

boosted bass
cut volume of most of what was part 2 (6:05 to end or original tracking), there is a volume boost in the bass solo [now around 3:03 in the bass feature], I did a partial fade to flatten it and then lowered the volume of the following parts arccordingly (-6dB)
spliced two parts of first segment (Executive Suite)
deleted drop-out (@ 0:58 in #3)
removed various glitches (as good as possible) in bass-feature

kept André Francis outro (was incomplete only, repeated band and gave "Executive Suite" as title)

Lineage: radio broadcast (ORFT) > ? > dime > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > FLAC (8,asb,verify)

Notes:
came as: Montreux (Switzerland), Jazz Festival
date was given as: June 19, 1969 - see comments
but if this is from Montreux, July 11, 1970 would be the more likely date